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Sunday, January 22, 2012

Maritime Commerce and Security: The Indian Ocean

Maritime Commerce and Security: The Indian Ocean describes
the commercial trends and their security implications with a view to
helping policy makers and others outside the industry understand the
vulnerabilities of an industry that is central to the global economy and
security.
Maritime commerce in the Indian Ocean is vital to global trade, in
volume, in the key resources and manufactured goods that it moves, and
in the steadily predominating significance of the economies of East
Asia, India, the Gulf, Australia, and South Africa.
It has also seen rapid and far reaching change, in investment in
ports and vessels, and in the emergence of entirely new maritime
commercial powers such as Singapore, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia. The
economic shocks registered throughout the world in the past three years,
especially the downturn in trade volumes, have added significant
uncertainty about the future of investments and national strategic
calculations.
In the contemporary Indian Ocean, the close relationship between
commerce and security takes many forms. Piracy is now seen emanating
increasingly far from the Horn of Africa and the Gulf of Aden into the
deep ocean. Naval task forces involving a dozen nations have had mixed
success in protecting these vital lifelines of commerce. The Chinese
Navy's presence in the Indian Ocean and Chinese commercial investments
in port infrastructure have been perceived by India as an integrated
source of strategic threat, and have occasioned a strategic rivalry
between the two rising powers. Indian naval presence and activity have
both proceeded from such worries and given rise to security concerns
among other countries in the region. Similarly, among smaller powers,
Singapore's robust security posture in large part reflects its
importance as a commercial and maritime nation. http://www.stimson.org/images/uploads/research-pdfs/March4_-_Full.pdf

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